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  • (Taste, July 31) that the Hindu American Foundation and other groups that promote religious understanding and pluralism "appear hypersensitive" because they speak out against misportrayal of Hindu beliefs and practices.

    Hindu Hypersensitivity 2009

  • In the meantime I'd recomend reading over it and thinking about both the potential for misportrayal of any concept or history if it were presented in such a manner AND the potential motivations for the creation of such and episode.

    Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor" 2009

  • But the revisionist effort to air-brush the Jews out of millennia of their own history resonates widely; in the UK, for instance, the malevolent misportrayal of Israel as an illegitimate colonial usurper has moved from the province of the far-Left inexorably towards the mainstream.

    Happy Birthday, Israel.... GayandRight 2008

  • Then after he hooks up with Jolie several months later, she backtracks and points the finger to Jolie and validates the tabloid misportrayal, paints a horrid false portrait using the gossip and any angle she could think of.

    Pitt Still Loves Jennifer Aniston 2008

  • I'm talking about a much broader swathe of the white American public, largely Southern, who I think are very angry about Jena and what they see as a misportrayal of what happened in Jena.

    CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2007 2007

  • I'm talking about a much broader swathe of the white American public, largely Southern, who I think are very angry about Jena and what they see as a misportrayal of what happened in Jena.

    CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2007 2007

  • "We are arguing for a measure of deference, where it is appropriate ... not too much, but some understanding," he told the court, claiming a misportrayal of the SCA decision by Cosatu and the CCMA.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • I'm talking about a much broader swath of the white American public, largely Southern, who I think are very angry about Jena and what they see as a misportrayal of what happened in Jena.

    CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2007 2007

  • I'm talking about a much broader swathe of the white American public, largely Southern, who I think are very angry about Jena and what they see as a misportrayal of what happened in Jena.

    CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2007 2007

  • Unfortunately, the misportrayal in the western media is not so correct, so this is the territory that we have.

    CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2001 2001

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